about this one

They should have no concerns about an inhabitant of the White house sporting 39 social security numbers, some are the social security numbers of the deceased ... Washington Post has written that 8 out of 10 Americans know about this issue. According to AOL-it’s 85%. This number is growing ... A few snooty remarks on MSM and on the faithful to regime lap dog blogs like Politijab, Salon or Politico?

39 Social Security numbers? Imagine the credit report hassles.

On a more serious note, I wish those like Taitz would spend their time addressing serious issues such as the lobbying clout of corporate America, bought-and-paid-for politicians, etc., the very thing that will deliver to us an almost certainly meaningless public option and the behind-the-scenes deal making between the WH and big pharma.

How many will march next time around, when so many loose (sic) their jobs (half a million jobs every month officially) and probably double that number unofficially. When they loose (sic) their homes at a rate higher then the rate during great depression.

Taitz would find little disagreement from many about our calamity--of-a-government but does she really think booting Obama will right the ship?

here.

I’ve called around to several of the smartest military experts I know to get their views on these controversies.

Apart from the anonymous sourcing issue, statements like this always make me laugh since they presuppose the writer having the intelligence to determine who "the smartest" might be.

I tried to get them to talk about the strategic choices facing the president. To my surprise, I found them largely uninterested.

And these are experts? These

retired officers, analysts who have written books about counterinsurgency warfare, people who have spent years in Afghanistan

but shrug with disinterest at these "strategic choices"?

Ah, but then we get to Brooks' real motive: the President is a weak-kneed Sally.

*They are worried about his determination.

*(They) have no idea if President Obama is committed to this effort ... (or) if he is willing to stick by his decisions, explain the war to the American people and persevere through good times and bad.

Such language permeates the column; tenacity, obstinacy, gut conviction, raw determination.

In sum, I don't think Brooks talked to anyone. I think he was filing his nails, saw some clips of Afghanistan on the tube and CSPAN think tank coverage yesterday of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Fred Kagan and thought, "Yeah, that's right, what these guys said. I should write about that."

But, to paraphrase Jim White, if you want to be a tough armchair warrior, lose the pink shirt and those '80s glasses (and the smirk).

farragut

I just showed how simplistic and ridiculous my views are, glenn, on the Middle East and it's beautiful to get thrashed regularly.

farragut's view: If we just keep beating up the Middle East they'll continue to see us as the enemy and will never leave us alone. And any evil they committ is simply because we have been attacking them since the beginning of time.

Please let me post here as often as possible where I'm put into honest debates because it is a pleasure to watch me have to defend myself without the verbose, overdone commentary I cannot possibly offer here.

mass of melting brain tissue.

At this rate, Taitz' next move will see her mother charged before the Tribunal of Truth and Justice, accused of complicity in Fox's nefarious scheme to deprive dental lawyers of their right to declare all human life a conspiracy.

After all, God can't even prove his existence, never mind produce a birth certificate.

"....those who would sell their body for money reflect a desperate need for attention and are likely to say and do anything for even more attention."

Pot meet kettle.

That was my thought as well. Ordinarily, I detest this sort of thing (which seems to happen with so many divorces) but, in this case, I find it very hard--no, impossible--to sympathize with someone who says this

... the mean spirited, malicious and untrue attacks on our family. We, like many, are appalled at the inflammatory statements being made or implied ... CBS should be ashamed for continually providing a forum to propagate lies

given the GOP-promoting role of Fox and Palin's own inflammatory statements (such as "death Panels").

Just keep saying you want to give up and hide behind the military that is willing to fight when you aren't.

And are you willing to fight? Then, as rrheard suggested, sign up or take a civilian role in this glorious war you cheerlead from the sidelines.

Your comments are wretched and cowardly, a mix of dull-witted jingoism and flag-waving.

You haven't an ounce of integrity and you certainly have never offered a shred of rationality to support your wet-lipped RedState position, such as it is.

You don't care whether they live or die.

But you do, which is why you thump your asthmatic chest and weakly shout your support of one war after another.

Stop faking concern.

Take your own advice, pet.

Rand's views are not dissimilar from those of Plato's Republic, and her view that

I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows,"

flies in the face of the many GOPers attempts to co-opt her writings and cover them with a patina of religiosity.

What's amusing is Sanford's confused reading--essentially negating Rand's view altogether--that

The idea that man is perfectible has been disproved by 10,000 years of history. Men and women are imperfect, or "fallen," which is why I believe there is a role for limited government in making sure that my rights end where yours begin.

His conclusion, derived from his premise of fallen humanity, makes about as much sense as

not all auto transmissions are automatic; some are manual; this is why we need a better rapid transit system.